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Dan Vanderkam
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Jan 23, 2019 ⋅ 5 min read

How TypeScript breaks referential transparency

Dan Vanderkam Dan is a Principal Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs and the author of Effective TypeScript: 62 Specific Ways to Improve Your TypeScript (O'Reilly 2019). He blogs regularly at effectivetypescript.com.

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One Reply to "How TypeScript breaks referential transparency"

  1. Nowadays in ts we have `as const` which will type out a tuple as the type you expect. (It also works for deeply nested objects)

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